@landonfuller @rauschma Which interpreted and fast language would you have chosen 15-10y ago? If later, codebase too big to drop.
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Replying to @alpengeist_de
@alpengeist_de@rauschma 20 years ago, almost. All it would have taken -- at any point in 20 years -- was a versatile bytecode and mem model2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @landonfuller
@landonfuller@alpengeist_de asm.js looks like a hack at first glance, but is similar, more flexible and just one more intermediate step.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @rauschma
@rauschma@alpengeist_de asm.js itself is just a poor bytecode that requires at a baseline a complex full JS execution environment.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @landonfuller
@landonfuller@rauschma@alpengeist_de why would an asm.js impl require a full JS runtime. Implementing just the asm subset AOT is fine.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @wycats
@wycats@rauschma@alpengeist_de If that were true, then asm.js wouldn't be JS, as codegen could not assume JS.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @landonfuller
@landonfuller@rauschma@alpengeist_de you're arguing a different point. Your claim that an asm.js impl requires a full JS is wrong.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @wycats
@wycats@rauschma@alpengeist_de How is it wrong? http://asmjs.org/spec/latest/#external-code-and-data …1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @landonfuller
@landonfuller@rauschma@alpengeist_de that's like saying C has a dependency on POSIX.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@landonfuller @wycats http://mozakai.blogspot.com/2011/11/code-size-when-compiling-to-javascript.html …
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